January 23, 2004
I have issues with ketchup. No, it's not what you think - the dual spelling. I'm okay with that. I like variety. My main problem is the smell of ketchup when I'm not eating it. If I'm eating it, it doesn't bother me. But, thirty minutes later, if I walk by the same dish I ate off of, I am totally grossed out. I don't want to look at, or touch it, or smell it. Heaven help me if I accidentally get "used" ketchup on me when I'm out somewhere. I freak out to the nth degree.
And that folks, is your unexplainable and irrelevent Shannon factoid for the day.
See ya on Monday!
My problem with ketchup is the dual spelling. "Catsup" looks like one's trying to say "Sup, cat?" or something like that.
Posted by: Jessie at January 25, 2004 05:27 AMlol... my theory was always that catsup was the northern spelling... and ketchup was the southern spelling... but i have no idea where or when that idea entered my the chaotic labrynth of my brain...
p.s. shannon... the mysterious "they" (who just happen to have an interest in dishwashing detergent) might've put an additive in ketchup that makes you feel that way...
Posted by: Aunt Vickie at January 26, 2004 01:09 PMI'm with you on the smell of ketchup. I can't even eat it. It all goes back to this girl I went to kindergarten with who smelled like ketchup. I haven't been able to eat it since.
True story.
Posted by: Christin at January 26, 2004 03:00 PMPoor, poor girl... under what circumstance would you perpetually smell like ketchup? I shudder to think!
Posted by: Shannon at January 26, 2004 04:29 PMI am willing to bet that everyone on earth went to school for some period of time with one particular kid who smelled like some kind of condiment. I had kindergarten with a kid who smelled like mayo.
Posted by: Patrick at January 28, 2004 11:30 AMI proposed to a girl with a french fry in 3rd grade. She dipped it in ketchup and threw it at me. Totally scarred me. But I still never smelled like ketchup, that's just ridiculous.
Posted by: Philip at June 18, 2004 09:54 AMI work with a guy who smells like ketchup! I think when he sweats ketchup oozes out. I wonder if this is an actual condition. He eats ketchup right out of the little packets and doesn't even require food to put it on although he does cover everything he does eat with ketchup. How strange. I guess I should be glad it isn't mayo.
Posted by: Andre' at June 18, 2004 10:03 AMEw! Nobody has a legitimate reason to be eating ketchup out of the packet, at the very least not in PUBLIC. Have some shame, people.
Posted by: Shannon at June 18, 2004 10:20 AM